By Mark Kaufman

Detail from a new illustration for The Stranger Election Control Board 2009 endorsement issue. We have all mail-in voting in WA state now. I absolutely HATE IT, it just feels wrong, something is missing in the process, and I think that something is civic engagement. I have not missed a vote in decades, and that includes presidential year elections, off year elections, primaries, dog catcher elections…I just know that in the near future I will forget to mail in my ballot on time since voting has now been reduced to the level of junk mail. Did I mention that I hate mail-in voting?